Letters to the editor: March 25

A daunting story for
1913 flood's anniversary

At the time of the 1913 flood, my parents were living in Otterbein, in Benton County. A doctor determined my mother needed an emergency appendectomy. Accompanied by my father, she was taken on a ferry boat across the swollen river. How scary that must have been.

After arriving safely on the Lafayette side, she was taken to a local hospital and a successful surgery was performed. She made a full recovery.